[Fedora 23] Installing KDE Plasma as a second Desktop Environment! [bug]

Andrew R Paterson andy.paterson at ntlworld.com
Tue Nov 24 09:41:30 UTC 2015


On Tuesday 24 November 2015 00:07:00 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 19:23 +0000, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
> > I must be missing the point here, but I have always found that after
> > installing multiple desktops and leaving gdm as the login manager,
> > when you
> > are asked for the password on login there is a little gear cog icon
> > which if
> > you click on brings up a menu of the different desktops you have
> > installed -
> > for instance I have CDE, GNOME, KDE .....
> 
> You're confusing Desktop Environment (DE) with Desktop Manager (DM).
> The DM handles the graphical login and other session stuff, including
> allowing you to select your DE, but the various DMs (gdm, kdm, sddm,
> ...) have slightly different capabilities.
> 
> poc
I know that - but thats the problem! most people assume that in order to 
change DE youi have to change DM!
The "slightly different capabilities" you describe are so slight as make the 
whole idea of using multiple DMs a pointless exercise.
Andy


More information about the users mailing list